English NEMO-Online No. 5 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are seeking papers for the fifth issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Musicology/Ethnomusicology: evolutions and problems’. Since its origins as Vergleichende Musikwissenschaft, ethnomusicology struggles to define itself in relation to classical Occidental musicology, the latter being the semantic carrier of a more general character which is nevertheless restricted to the study of musics which in a first instance concerns only the Occident, and in a second instance, which is concerned with music labelled as ‘learned’, even integrating popular musics such as jazz, pop, rock [more…]

English NEMO-Online No. 4 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are seeking papers for the third issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times.’ All aspects of Organology will be considered such as: Prehistory: Instrument making in pre-history as an unconscious cognitive phenomenon Distinction between implement and instrument Sensorial analogy in the conceptualisation of musical instruments History: Instruments and totemism Instruments and worship Instruments as urban and commercial tools Earliest evidence of musical facture Organological evidence: material, glues and their making, hides, strings, [more…]

English NEMO-Online No. 4 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are seeking papers for the third issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times.’ All aspects of Organology will be considered such as: Prehistory: Instrument making in pre-history as an unconscious cognitive phenomenon Distinction between implement and instrument Sensorial analogy in the conceptualisation of musical instruments History: Instruments and totemism Instruments and worship Instruments as urban and commercial tools Earliest evidence of musical facture Organological evidence: material, glues and their making, hides, strings, woods, [more…]

English NEMO-Online No. 3 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and PLM are seeking papers for the third issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Myths and truths in Music from the Antiquity to the Present.’ (Mesopotamia, Asia, Egypt, Africa, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Occident and beyond.) Myths and legends always have had their purpose in the building-up of history and of its truisms such as with magical powers of the lyre and others. The Orient is particularly rich with such events even reaching the domain of theory, and often leading to astonishing blunders. Principal themes: Myths [more…]

English NEMO-Online No. 2 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and PLM are seeking papers for the second issue of NEMO on the theme of ‘Modality in all its forms’. All papers welcome including Occidental forms of modality and subject to editorial rules. Papers to be sent before the end of July 2013 to Richard Dumbrill, or Amine Beyhom. Français Appel à contributions pour NEMO-Online N° 2 Les centres et groupes de recherches CERMAA, ICONEA et PLM ont le plaisir de confirmer que le deuxième numéro de NEMO sera consacré à “La modalité dans tous ses états” et [more…]